Word: zhen
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...nice restaurant in central Shanghai, Liu Zhi-he sat fidgeting at the table, knowing that it was about time for him to leave. All around him sat relatives from an extended family that had gathered for a momentous occasion: the 90th birthday of Liu's great-grandmother Ling Shu Zhen, the still spry and elegant matriarch of a sprawling clan. But Liu had to leave because it was time for him to go to school. This Saturday, as he does every Saturday, Liu was attending two special classes. He takes a math tutorial, and he studies English...
...Zhen Gong ’10 said he was accosted by one of the exhibition’s representatives as he was about to eat at a local restaurant...
...That's not to say that they aren't enjoyable. Wu Zhen's two-color poster series, I Love Guangzhou, would never earn the local tourist board's tick of approval, but it has a streetwise, hand-drawn roughness that is far closer to the actual character of the city than official depictions are. Jon Fong's white paper-cut rendition of the infamous couplet "A hundred flowers blossoming/ A hundred viewpoints contending" is wonderfully funereal, referencing the use of the motto in Mao's Hundred Flowers campaign, during which hundreds of thousands of rightists were imprisoned, tortured or killed...
...downright silly. They also prevent a simple enjoyment of the book - its pleasant pastoral passages are sooner or later interrupted by jarring expositions that wouldn't look out of place in a 19th century manual of eugenics. Here's one from the novel's main character, Chen Zhen...
...inevitable that China will evolve into a freer society," says Jiang. But curiously there is no such optimism in the book. The wolves - those symbols of perfect freedom - are exterminated by officials as part of a plan to turn the grasslands over to large-scale farming, and Chen Zhen, the protagonist, can find only hackneyed, metaphysical solace as he meditates upon a wolf-cub pelt, imagining the cub's spirit in "the place where all the souls of Mongolian wolves that had died in battles over the millennia congregated." One is left wondering if millions of Chinese readers also believe...